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  • Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us

    Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us

    If ever a game required a palette cleanser to recover mentally and physically from the experience of play, The Last of Us is that game.

    October 19, 2020
  • Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man

    Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man

    Do you remember your first time? Were you nervous? Excited? Peter Parker was my first…first platinum trophy that is.

    October 14, 2020
  • Basement Isolation in the Age of COVID

    COVID rules the world. I went into a group of people, and then I spent two weeks in my basement. It wasn’t bad, but it sure was surreal.

    October 1, 2020
  • Apple Watch: In Memoriam

    This week, I said goodbye to a friend, my OG Apple watch, and now I grapple with what life looks like in a post-Apple Watch world.

    September 14, 2020
  • Quarantine Tales: The Mountain Man – Part 1

    The world has changed. People have changed. These are the (fictional) tales that escaped.

    August 18, 2020
  • The Mosquito Situation

    Filthy bloodsuckers, mosquitoes are the bane of my existence. Where the little monsters gave me a peaceful, undisturbed May, June, and most of July, they made up for their early shyness with a vicious assault over the last two weeks on any bared skin.

    August 12, 2020
  • The Vocal Volume Conundrum

    Folks, we have a problem. My girlfriend says I am too loud when I play video games. I know, that is absolutely ridiculous. Let me break it down and show why she is unequivocally incorrect.

    August 9, 2020
  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump

    I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…

    August 4, 2020
  • Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.

    July 29, 2020
  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times

    Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.

    July 21, 2020
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